just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.
I know that there’s https://reddark.untone.uk/ for tracking which subreddits are dark or planning to go dark but is there a website that shows the amount of dark subreddits over time as a graph? I think that’d be quite interesting to see.
Hate to see reddit die like this, but Lemmy does feel like a suitable alternative, and I’m glad I switched over. Hopefully we see a lot more users move over as subreddits go dark.
This is so weird and cool, like a bunch of different entire Reddits connected together, each with redditors all Redditing together. I am also a refugee, hi.
new refugee - hello and thank you for welcoming us 🙋🏻♀️ very first of what i’m sure will be many posts here in the fedverse. nice to meet you all!
reddit know the list of named 3p apps out there are. likely tens not hundreds.
they could have implemented an api management solution to charge those folks differently than what they charge a corporation training lllms.
i sell this solution to enterprises for a living and it’s not technically hard to implement. truly. thousands of companies large and small with fewer resources than reddit have done it.
reddit could have done it in less than a couple of hours and charged a fair rate to these developers while making bank on ai.
but no, spez the egocentric jackass chose this path instead.
corp controlled social media is both dangerous and toxic. the only way to fix this is to burn them to the ground so burn it we must.
deleting my reddit account & data on the 30th and watching the latest developments re: blackouts, communities going indefinitely dark even today … with excitement for the future.
would have never thought in just a week i couldn’t go from loving to loathing something so much.
i think the goal is to shut them down - the pricing + time they were given is pretty effective at making sure the only way to access reddit content is via the paths reddit owns. they can collect more data, change whatever, charge whatever, and compete with nobody
it’s enough to make us leave forever, hopefully everyone else follows suit
what blew my mind, and the minds of many other people on reddit is that they (reddit) have 2,000 employees and yet still can’t piece together a good and accessible experience for their users…
No matter how many developers you get, you’re never going to have a good product if the guy calling the shots won’t allow it. I’m confident that the developers working on Reddit probably know damn well that their product is trash and there’s nothing they can do about it because their job isn’t “make a good site” its “do what your boss tells you to do”
That’s absolutely right, I’m not a developer, I’m a UX/UI designer. I recently had a contract where the contractor slaughtered my initial design to the point where I almost started to hate it, but I was bound by contract to finish it.
If reddit wants, their developer can absolutely build a top notch app.
I’ve been getting used to lemmy for the last couple days, going back and forth between here and reddit and following what’s going on, and I think I just realized something that I hadn’t been able to put into words.
The lemmy community feels responsive and fun to talk to, and I think that’s because the people who are coming here from reddit are the people who are motivated to communicate, and are people who care about the topics in each community. That’s pretty cool.
I’ve been feeling weird about leaving Reddit; mainly because it’s been my main source of entertainment, news, and community for over 10 years but this is a really good point about any ‘social’ network. Even the link aggregator sites like Reddit. Over the past couple of years, I feel like my engagement has dropped significantly because it hasn’t been FUN to engage with the communities I was a part of the same way it was when I first joined. I’m hoping to recapture that a bit here specifically on Lemmy and in the fediverse at large.
There is an energy here that I haven’t really felt from reddit as a whole in years…
Certain (smaller) subs could still get that same feeling sometimes, but so far I am very much enjoying lemmy. Yeah there’s a bit of a learning curve to figuring things out but I think people will catch on fast!
I can post and comment here without getting yelled at or worthless, and off topic, replies. I hope they keeps the trolls to a minimum and encourage meaningful contributions.
Great point. There will be a big wave i’m sure (it happened w/ Mastodon/microblogging fediverse platforms) and after a few months, some of the people tried it and left. The people who remained are such an engaging and fun group to talk to.
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9to5Mac: iPhone subreddit starting protest early, going dark indefinitely
Business Insider: Reddit users are planning a 48-hour blackout to protest its new pricing policy
The Verge: Reddit’s users and moderators are pissed at its CEO
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engadged: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defends API changes in AMA
despite the title they’re not going light on him lol
mashable: Reddit’s CEO’s AMA turns into disaster
p.s. non-English tech magazines are covering the protest too, I guess it’s worldwide known at this point.
I know that there’s https://reddark.untone.uk/ for tracking which subreddits are dark or planning to go dark but is there a website that shows the amount of dark subreddits over time as a graph? I think that’d be quite interesting to see.
Reddit refugee here just doing my part to help with engagement!
Don’t forget Relay is shutting down too
Thank you for this! It’s good to remain updated on the state of the things without checking reddit
Hate to see reddit die like this, but Lemmy does feel like a suitable alternative, and I’m glad I switched over. Hopefully we see a lot more users move over as subreddits go dark.
This is so weird and cool, like a bunch of different entire Reddits connected together, each with redditors all Redditing together. I am also a refugee, hi.
It’s sad to see Reddit go down this path, but the writing has been on the wall for awhile now. Losing Apollo is what had me make the jump to Lemmy.
Hopefully we build a strong community here.
Edit: typo
new refugee - hello and thank you for welcoming us 🙋🏻♀️ very first of what i’m sure will be many posts here in the fedverse. nice to meet you all!
reddit know the list of named 3p apps out there are. likely tens not hundreds.
they could have implemented an api management solution to charge those folks differently than what they charge a corporation training lllms.
i sell this solution to enterprises for a living and it’s not technically hard to implement. truly. thousands of companies large and small with fewer resources than reddit have done it.
reddit could have done it in less than a couple of hours and charged a fair rate to these developers while making bank on ai.
but no, spez the egocentric jackass chose this path instead.
corp controlled social media is both dangerous and toxic. the only way to fix this is to burn them to the ground so burn it we must.
deleting my reddit account & data on the 30th and watching the latest developments re: blackouts, communities going indefinitely dark even today … with excitement for the future.
would have never thought in just a week i couldn’t go from loving to loathing something so much.
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i think the goal is to shut them down - the pricing + time they were given is pretty effective at making sure the only way to access reddit content is via the paths reddit owns. they can collect more data, change whatever, charge whatever, and compete with nobody
it’s enough to make us leave forever, hopefully everyone else follows suit
r/iPhone mods 6 hours ago: In less than 24 hours, /r/iPhone will be going private indefinitely.
I hope this bullshit kills their site. Monetization is necessary in some ways, but this is just pure greed.
If they started with something more sensible and than increase control if needed - cool, they at least tried. But this is just ugly.
what blew my mind, and the minds of many other people on reddit is that they (reddit) have 2,000 employees and yet still can’t piece together a good and accessible experience for their users…
No matter how many developers you get, you’re never going to have a good product if the guy calling the shots won’t allow it. I’m confident that the developers working on Reddit probably know damn well that their product is trash and there’s nothing they can do about it because their job isn’t “make a good site” its “do what your boss tells you to do”
That’s absolutely right, I’m not a developer, I’m a UX/UI designer. I recently had a contract where the contractor slaughtered my initial design to the point where I almost started to hate it, but I was bound by contract to finish it.
If reddit wants, their developer can absolutely build a top notch app.
I’ve been a developer for awhile and you would be surprised how many companies can’t get out of their own way to improve their products.
This is so true it hurts.
Hacker News: Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin
KbinMigration Subreddit URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/KbinMigration
Hacker News Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36268458
I’ve been getting used to lemmy for the last couple days, going back and forth between here and reddit and following what’s going on, and I think I just realized something that I hadn’t been able to put into words.
The lemmy community feels responsive and fun to talk to, and I think that’s because the people who are coming here from reddit are the people who are motivated to communicate, and are people who care about the topics in each community. That’s pretty cool.
I’ve been feeling weird about leaving Reddit; mainly because it’s been my main source of entertainment, news, and community for over 10 years but this is a really good point about any ‘social’ network. Even the link aggregator sites like Reddit. Over the past couple of years, I feel like my engagement has dropped significantly because it hasn’t been FUN to engage with the communities I was a part of the same way it was when I first joined. I’m hoping to recapture that a bit here specifically on Lemmy and in the fediverse at large.
I think you hit the nail on the head for me. I’m excited to see what comes from this community far more than Reddit.
There is an energy here that I haven’t really felt from reddit as a whole in years…
Certain (smaller) subs could still get that same feeling sometimes, but so far I am very much enjoying lemmy. Yeah there’s a bit of a learning curve to figuring things out but I think people will catch on fast!
Exactly! Reddit turned in a whine site.
Yes!
I can post and comment here without getting yelled at or worthless, and off topic, replies. I hope they keeps the trolls to a minimum and encourage meaningful contributions.
Great point. There will be a big wave i’m sure (it happened w/ Mastodon/microblogging fediverse platforms) and after a few months, some of the people tried it and left. The people who remained are such an engaging and fun group to talk to.
I’m out. Redact is busy just now deleting everything under my account.
What’s redact?
An app that allows you to remove all your posts from Reddit and other social media accounts.
By chance, do you have a link to it? I’ve been doing this manually, and it’s taking ages.
https://redact.dev/
Amazing! Thank you!
Tonight, we erase the past!
Check that it stayed deleted. My posts came back after deletion.
One of us! One of us!